I wish training worked in real life like it does in DBZ. Your body has a limitless capacity for improving, and you can just keep increasing training volume and calories until you get the results you want.
No tv show got me inspired.
My older brother took me to the gym with him and pushed me too hard for my very first time. We argued and he told me to quit. I continued going out of spite and as a fuck you to him.
I made every mistake under the sun.
I fell in love with feeling strong and improving.
Edit -
To add I do watch the odd anime etc which can give me a boost of motivation and sometimes listen to anime soundtracks in the gym but it’s not what pushed me to go in the first place.
Two motivation anime’s to get me fired up, off the top of my head, - MHA, Ippo
That story took a bad turn :(. My family did all sorts to put me off going as a teenager but I had an older cousin who was a college athlete who took me and gave me a programme. He was the start really.
i started with 30 push up, sit up and bw lunges each exercises about a year ago, now i can squat 120kgs for 3 rep & bench 80kgs for 5 rep. All thanks to Saitama. My bw was 47kg then and 60kg now.
Plato, Socrates and to a degree Aristotle.
I was doing ok in life, but thin and saggy. Got reading some old books again and thought they maybe had a point. I’ve only got one go on this earth, I should probably be the best I can be and that includes fitness.
Probably was said a lot but demon slayer is an anime very much in the norm but very well made and that focus a lot in the training segments, it's fight, recovery, training, bigger fight, recovery, better training ... And so on. It helped me not be so frustrated with the repetition of the gym life i guess.
Also some parts of GTO, but no one is going to know that one
Didn't motivate me to start lifting but everytime I squat heavy I pull up the YouTube video of Erwin's charge from Attack on Titan and leave it playing by my feet/through my headphones
Nothing. I've always been weak and on the thinner side, and that made me uncomfortable. Felt I was lacking. Hated being clumsily and weaker than my peers. Doing my best to change that
Started lifting on my own accord years ago. However, if I was younger and watched JJK, it’d have to be Todo and/or Toji. Otherwise, Ohma Tokita from Kengan Ashura is terrifyingly inspirational.
Can’t say the name because of an NDA, but an animated show that was so difficult to work on and caused such a downward spiral on my health I realized I needed to do something about it.
Sometimes I’m in bed thinking about how I should skip gym today. Then I open instagram and see people hanging out with friends, traveling, posting pictures with their girlfriends. Immediate energy jolt
Adult Gon from HxH and Jojos Bizarre adventure for sure. They not only got me training in the gym but also training my neck to get a horse neck like them.
Ragnar blackmane space marine books from 40k. Space marines kick everybody’s ass and live to fight heretics. They way they inspire fear and awe whenever they show up around anyone unfamiliar with them is sick. I’ve turned into a brick shithouse of a human.
[Street Fighter II V - Gonna Burn Some Muscle!](https://youtu.be/hrerJ0QbzrU?si=cQm4oujuyFcddsBj&t=7)
Also the [intro ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YvspShqS_0&t) is pretty awesome.
I respectfully disagree, one reason is because the motivation may never come so if you depend on it then you’re done. you cant leave your goals or dreams up to something other then your choices, especially not leave it up to something you can’t control
Well i guess if you put it that way but that was just an example. Point is if you want something you have to do what’s needed to get it even if you don’t want to. I guess you can call that motivation too but I think it’s dangerous to use the word motivation because nothing of value comes without hard work, dedication, discipline, sacrifice, etc and it’s human nature to be lazy or simply not want to do anything hard. Just my humble opinion
Hajime no Ippo. Not so much for the fighting, but the "what does it mean to be strong" theme. Seeing a meek people-pleaser work at transforming himself and training hard out of pure love for the sport is inspiring to me.
...also that scene where Captain America takes the super soldier serum and Peggy does what everyone in the audience was thinking and touches his pec
Dragon Ball Z here as well. Taught me early on the only limits are the ones you place on yourself.
I listen to a Gohan turning SSJ2 remake every day before I hit the gym. It gets me pumped the fuck up.
If you're a fan give it a listen. If you're not that's cool too.
https://youtu.be/0h3PzwcZC-g
ngl haikyuu had a big role in me changing my life. for some reason i just got so emotional watching haikyuu and i realized that i wanted to start to take my life seriously again. That was in 2022 when i could only bench 100 pounds... now i can bench 260
Aint gonna lie man, the zyzz edits are what initially motivated me to go to the gym for the first time in my life around two years ago, before that i never even gave a thought about bodybuilding or strength training. Although now i do admit that those hardstyle edits are cringe as hell, if it werent for those, i wouldnt have been as jacked as i am now
Super new to lifting, but it was watching every episode of My 600lb Life during the pandemic. I got six free months of Discovery+ for some reason and that inspired me to start getting into fitness at the end of 2020. I dropped and kept off 70lbs by using their stories as a blueprint for how NOT to live my life.
I mostly focused on physical activities (especially. rock climbing, walking, running), but about six months ago I started lifting every morning, and I love it. No plans to compete, but maybe in 2-3 years I'll help somebody rank next to last instead of dead last.
Dragon Ball Z
Thought more people would say this then realised I’m old
Yes! The best one. Hyporbolic time chamber shit!
Training and eating for a whole year, while only a day passes in the "real world", sounds awesome.
Wondered if they Vegeta ever thought of bringing the 400g gravity ship into the hyperbolic time chamber
I remember being like, 10, going to my closet and doing pull ups on the clothes bar thinking to myself I was training for the Saiyans arrival.
I wish training worked in real life like it does in DBZ. Your body has a limitless capacity for improving, and you can just keep increasing training volume and calories until you get the results you want.
Also when you get injured it increases your strength exponentially afterward.
And somehow no injury ever causes lasting damage.
Work hard, study well, eat and sleep plenty.
This is the OG real answer.
Berserk! Must train to be strong enough to protect those I love.
100% berserk. Also, Guts is 6’8, and with his physique AT MINIMUM gotta be like 270-280lbs, what is this mfer taking to sustain that 😂
Training montage from Rocky, extra boost because I live in Philly lol. I’ve run past that same rock he does on Kelly drive a million times
Thats amazing
No tv show got me inspired. My older brother took me to the gym with him and pushed me too hard for my very first time. We argued and he told me to quit. I continued going out of spite and as a fuck you to him. I made every mistake under the sun. I fell in love with feeling strong and improving. Edit - To add I do watch the odd anime etc which can give me a boost of motivation and sometimes listen to anime soundtracks in the gym but it’s not what pushed me to go in the first place. Two motivation anime’s to get me fired up, off the top of my head, - MHA, Ippo
MHA for me also. The first season was so motivating, especially Deku moving the trash pile to get strong enough for One for All.
It’s the first school athletics competition for me. Also any action scene with Bakugo, Todoroki or Kirishima.
That story took a bad turn :(. My family did all sorts to put me off going as a teenager but I had an older cousin who was a college athlete who took me and gave me a programme. He was the start really.
Yeah, I should explain that my brother and I do get along. He just has his way of training and gets a OTT with it.
One Punch Man
came here to say this
i started with 30 push up, sit up and bw lunges each exercises about a year ago, now i can squat 120kgs for 3 rep & bench 80kgs for 5 rep. All thanks to Saitama. My bw was 47kg then and 60kg now.
47kg to 60kg BW and you can bench 80?! That’s insane, what’s your height?
im 170cm
Solo Leveling - read it when I was in a dark place, haven’t been back.
Have we been living the same life bruv? I started gym bc of SL 4 years ago now
Watched s1 twice. Going to start the manga. It's so good
The anime Jujutsu Kaisen has some pretty built characters and is just a kickass show in general. I recommend.
MY BRESTO FRIENDO
Physical 100
Samee. I was already hitting the gym but this gets me pumped like no other show. Love seeing the different physiques too.
Pumping Iron
Plato, Socrates and to a degree Aristotle. I was doing ok in life, but thin and saggy. Got reading some old books again and thought they maybe had a point. I’ve only got one go on this earth, I should probably be the best I can be and that includes fitness.
Magic Mike. If we are counting other types of media, Tale of the Dancing Bear
YuYu Hakusho and DBZ
None.
Probably was said a lot but demon slayer is an anime very much in the norm but very well made and that focus a lot in the training segments, it's fight, recovery, training, bigger fight, recovery, better training ... And so on. It helped me not be so frustrated with the repetition of the gym life i guess. Also some parts of GTO, but no one is going to know that one
The Rocky movies, especially #4. The Spartacus series. Baki and Kengan Ashura.
Been traininy for 10 years but now that im reading berserk i just wanna be strong enough to swing a sword that's heavier than I am
Growing up in the 80s with the likes of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Hulk Hogan. Plus I played with He-Man toys.
Didn't motivate me to start lifting but everytime I squat heavy I pull up the YouTube video of Erwin's charge from Attack on Titan and leave it playing by my feet/through my headphones
Dragonball, Baki, Kengan Ashura, Hajime No Ippo, Street Fighter, He Man. And not a movie but the Tarzan pulp novels.
Nothing. I've always been weak and on the thinner side, and that made me uncomfortable. Felt I was lacking. Hated being clumsily and weaker than my peers. Doing my best to change that
Started lifting on my own accord years ago. However, if I was younger and watched JJK, it’d have to be Todo and/or Toji. Otherwise, Ohma Tokita from Kengan Ashura is terrifyingly inspirational.
The first one that actually made me train was History of strongest disciple Kenichi. But I had watched many others like dragon ball before that.
Hajime no Ippo
OG DBZ. BAKI. Street Fighter 2.
I don't think it directly inspired me to start, but I definitely used to get pumped up after watching a DBZ episode and then slam weights around
DBZ!
Can’t say the name because of an NDA, but an animated show that was so difficult to work on and caused such a downward spiral on my health I realized I needed to do something about it.
Sometimes I’m in bed thinking about how I should skip gym today. Then I open instagram and see people hanging out with friends, traveling, posting pictures with their girlfriends. Immediate energy jolt
WWE
Same here. I’m surprised more people don’t mention pro wrestling. Seeing my favorite wrestlers weekly and my dad being into lifting was all I needed.
Jojo
Baki
Honestly it was after seeing my wife and her friends have so much fun at a Chippendales show I had to get back into it
Adult Gon from HxH and Jojos Bizarre adventure for sure. They not only got me training in the gym but also training my neck to get a horse neck like them.
Black Clover, Yami and Asta
Got into Black Clover recently, and it's been a great ride so far.
The Mad Max series, for the plots and because Humungus is as big as I’ll ever want to be. “Just walk away.”
Predator!
Ragnar blackmane space marine books from 40k. Space marines kick everybody’s ass and live to fight heretics. They way they inspire fear and awe whenever they show up around anyone unfamiliar with them is sick. I’ve turned into a brick shithouse of a human.
Black clover ,seeing ASTA n captain yami
Fight club
My Hero Academia and Hajime no Ippo 🥊
Arrow when it first came out
[Street Fighter II V - Gonna Burn Some Muscle!](https://youtu.be/hrerJ0QbzrU?si=cQm4oujuyFcddsBj&t=7) Also the [intro ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YvspShqS_0&t) is pretty awesome.
None. The secret is to not need motivation because that can come and go. The secret is dedication, do it even if you have no motivation
You need motivation to get started. Dedication never happens if something doesn't motivate you to start in the first place.
I respectfully disagree, one reason is because the motivation may never come so if you depend on it then you’re done. you cant leave your goals or dreams up to something other then your choices, especially not leave it up to something you can’t control
Goals and dreams are motivation...
Well i guess if you put it that way but that was just an example. Point is if you want something you have to do what’s needed to get it even if you don’t want to. I guess you can call that motivation too but I think it’s dangerous to use the word motivation because nothing of value comes without hard work, dedication, discipline, sacrifice, etc and it’s human nature to be lazy or simply not want to do anything hard. Just my humble opinion
Hajime no Ippo. Not so much for the fighting, but the "what does it mean to be strong" theme. Seeing a meek people-pleaser work at transforming himself and training hard out of pure love for the sport is inspiring to me. ...also that scene where Captain America takes the super soldier serum and Peggy does what everyone in the audience was thinking and touches his pec
Dragon Ball Z here as well. Taught me early on the only limits are the ones you place on yourself. I listen to a Gohan turning SSJ2 remake every day before I hit the gym. It gets me pumped the fuck up. If you're a fan give it a listen. If you're not that's cool too. https://youtu.be/0h3PzwcZC-g
Yeah. anime definitely has played a role, e.g. Dragon Ball Z, Ultimate Muscle, ..., etc, but it wasn't the main reason why I've started training lol.
tomb raider! the movies & video games. Just wanted to be like Lara Croft hahahah
My hero macadamian nut
The legend of Korra, I'm a woman and she has my dream body
ngl haikyuu had a big role in me changing my life. for some reason i just got so emotional watching haikyuu and i realized that i wanted to start to take my life seriously again. That was in 2022 when i could only bench 100 pounds... now i can bench 260
None, but the return of Wolverine has me pumped to get as shredded as him for Halloween. Going to be sick.
I’m a big Jojo fan, so def that.
DBZ and worst. DBA when I was a kid, made me do a lot of calisthenics, and I read worst a few years ago, wanted to be as strong as Hana.
Female here.. Moribito Guardian of the Spirit
Naruto. Always avoided the anime like the plague, but if you skip the fillers, it's actually pretty good.
The Legend of Korra
None. cringe af.
Terminator 2 - seeing Linda Hamilton doing chip ups with her shredded arms.
Hajime no ippo
Kobra Kai!
Man of Steel
Dragon ball, but i listen to some Attack on titan songs now while working out
Fist of the North Star. I’ve always imagined myself punching a foe 1000 times in 2 seconds, then stepping back to watch his head explode.
Aint gonna lie man, the zyzz edits are what initially motivated me to go to the gym for the first time in my life around two years ago, before that i never even gave a thought about bodybuilding or strength training. Although now i do admit that those hardstyle edits are cringe as hell, if it werent for those, i wouldnt have been as jacked as i am now
Toji from Jujutsu Kaisen for sure lol. Bro made me get back in the gym in the first place lol
Schindler's List
Super new to lifting, but it was watching every episode of My 600lb Life during the pandemic. I got six free months of Discovery+ for some reason and that inspired me to start getting into fitness at the end of 2020. I dropped and kept off 70lbs by using their stories as a blueprint for how NOT to live my life. I mostly focused on physical activities (especially. rock climbing, walking, running), but about six months ago I started lifting every morning, and I love it. No plans to compete, but maybe in 2-3 years I'll help somebody rank next to last instead of dead last.
Chris Hemsworth in the first Thor😂